Crime is out of control…
The father of singer and actress Lady Gaga was reportedly attacked outside of a church in New York City as Mayor Eric Adams struggles to get a handle on crime in the liberal city.
“I just got attacked outside of my church… I was attacked,” Joanne Trattoria, owner and father of Grammy award-winning artist Lady Gaga, Joe Germanotta, told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday.
“It was 7:30 in the morning, and I don't know whether he's homeless, he was a little disturbed,” Germanotta detailed. “First, he pushed the pastor of the church. We were standing out in front, and then he came down the stairs coming after me.”
The business owner and dad added: “I can't tell you what I did to him.”
Germanotta has been outspoken over his concern about the rise in crime in New York City since the Covid pandemic and President Biden's handling of the economy.
“I can tell you this, where we're getting hurt most is the economy,” Germanotta said. “The customers that used to come in once a week, they come in once every three weeks… And you know who gets hurt? Not so much the restaurant or their payroll, but the workers and the salespeople.”
“Business was booming four years ago. I was going to have the best year ever,” he continued. “And it's been a steady decline since this new administration and the mayor and the crime and the newcomers. And just every time you turn around, there's a ‘gotcha' there.”
Brazen open crime is hardly new to New York City, recently multiple young women reported being assaulted in broad daylight by the same man on social media.
“The trend that I'm getting from the people that we're arresting, the majority of them are homeless, the majority of them seem like they need some kind of help with mental illness,” Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a recent press conference according to The New York Post.
Most of the attacks don't appear to be copycats and cops don't consider them a trend, Kenny said.
Cops arrested Skiboky Stora, a perennial down-ballot political candidate who ran for mayor, and charged him with assault and harassment, records show. He was also charged with two attacks in Manhattan last year, Kenny said.
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